Former Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano has been transferred to a halfway house in New York, officials say.

Cammarano, who was sentenced to 24 months on extortion and corruption charges, was "keyed out" of the Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp in Pennsylvania Wednesday at 8 a.m., according to Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Chris Burke.

Burke says the 34-year-old arrived in New York some time Wednesday afternoon, although he could not disclose Cammarano's exact location or the exact time of his arrival.

He added that the halfway house is supervised by the New York Community Corrections Office, which is based in New York City but supervises a large area of the state.

Halfway houses, Burke says, are designed to help prisoners get ready to reenter the community and said that inmates are typically considered for transfer to home confinement at some point during their period in the halfway houses.

"We don't anticipate them coming back," said Burke, who said that halfway house inmates can still be taken back to prison if they violate the terms of their home confinement or the rules of the halfway house. "He's still serving his sentence so he's still subject to rules and regulations and can be taken back to secure facility if we need to."

Cammarano, who pleaded guilty to accepting $25,000 in bribes in 2009's corruption sting Operation Bid Rig III, is scheduled to be released on March 11, 2012.